ELOCUTION IN OUR STATE SCHOOLS
To the Editor
yj r- —(j an you inform me whether elocution has been included in the Kyllubus of the Teachers' Summer School'!1 The reason of my inquiry is that whilst having had the pleasure of meeting many of the State school alumni, I have, perforce, been struct with their very ungrammaticul and badly-given diction in conversation. Their pronunciation was also bod, and unless they have the opportunity of' educating and bettering themselves .in..the "King's English." we shall have tc« cease wondering at the Cockney-cum-Americanisms that cur children are growing up in the habit of using. Reading, from an elocutionary standard, is much wanted in. our State schools. We find, even among our teachers, that the system in the elementary standards, viz., that" of carefully givi»g extreme value to the pronunciation oi each syllable sticks to them,in mature age. The consequence is that there is not a teacher in 90 out of 100 ivho is fit to give a. readinir leiison to his or her pupils.—lam, etc., b . ALUMNUS.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 4 February 1902, Page 3
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